People who’ve both spent time in academia and AI seem to believe that things could change faster than outsiders expect. Jared ...

A top AI researcher predicts AI systems may soon rival the intellect of leading theoretical physicists. Jared Kaplan, a ...

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In the rarefied world of theoretical physics, where Albert Einstein’s shadow still looms large, Harvard University and ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – For Dr. Sylvester James Gates Jr., mathematics is magic. The 74-year-old theoretical physicist had always loved math – it ran in the family, after all. His father and grandfather ...

A team of researchers from Switzerland and France and theoretical physicists in Canada and the U.S., including Rice University, believe they have found evidence of a theorized quantum phenomenon ...

A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single ...

Scientists developed a theory linking mobile and static behaviors of a particle in a Fermi sea, explaining quasiparticles and ...

Physicist Boris Shraiman has led an intellectually peripatetic career, to great satisfaction, success and acclaim. The theoretician, a professor at UC Santa Barbara, was recently awarded the American ...